feminism

Isabel Benham was the first woman to become a partner at a Wall Street bond firm, but it wasn't easy. When she graduated from Bryn Mawr with a degree in economics in 1931, a dean at the school gave her some advice on how to get a job in the financial industry: Learn to type. Others were more…

Fifty years ago this month, The Feminine Mystique by Betty Friedan was published. Even the husband she divorced conceded that Betty "almost single-handedly changed the course of human history. It took a driven, super-aggressive, egocentric, almost lunatic dynamo to rock the world the way she did."

Words may strive to appeal to the logical portion of our minds. But the images captured by photojournalists - from Robert Capa's photos of heroic GIs struggling to reach shore on D-Day to UPI photographer Johnny Jenkins's outrage-provoking photo of African American high school student Elizabeth…